This new volume on Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification brings together several of the most prominent social and political psycho

Psychologist John Jost has spent decades researching poor people who vote for policies of inequality and women who think men deserve higher salaries. He argues

In response to the international turmoil, violence, and increasing ideological polarization, social psychological interest in the topics of legitimacy and socia

This book, first published in 2001, provides a general approach to the psychological basis of social inequality.

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us—including many of those who are persecuted and powerless—so often defend the social systems that cause